Pricing: $150 application fee. $50,000 for neurosuspension for members in the U.S. ($60,000 for residents in other countries.) $120,000 for whole-body suspension for members in the U.S. ($130,000 for residents in other countries.)

Price: This is a for-profit company, which subcontracts for member driven organizations. They offer cooldown and encapsulation ($500 for neuro patients, $2000 for whole-body patients) and long term storage ($250/year for neuro patients and $1500/year for whole-body patients).

Price: The American Cryonics Society does not perform actual freezing, they subcontract both the preparation / initial freezing and the long term storage, and serve as a watchdog organization to make sure you're not thawed out. Regular yearly fees are about $300 ($55 a years for students), with higher costs initially to cover paperwork expenses, plus payment of the actual costs of the procedures from whomever you tell ACS you want to be processed by.

Telephone: (650)254-2001
FAX: (408)253-0444
Toll-Free: 1-800-523-2001
Quote from web page: "Our telephones are answered 24 hours a day, either by office staff or an answering service. In an emergency, the answering service can page critical personnel. Office hours are irregular, but weekday afternoons (Pacific time) are usually best."

Price: This organization does not involve itself formally in actual cryostasis, focusing on information, community, research, and support, but members have been involved in several permafrost burials. There is a $20/year membership fee if you want postal updats and $15/year for email updates.

Secondly, seeing as the immortalist perspective tends to encourage lots of caution and learning from other people's mistakes before you waste the opportunity to see what video games look like 1000 years from now, just because you didn't do some basic research. Anyway, here are some cryonics organizations that failed:

The Cryonics Society of California (CSC) was a "freeze first, pay later" operation that fell through when people stopped paying the bills on their frozen relatives. The person running the business hid the fact that there were bodies rotting in the dewars and lawsuits ensued when it was finally discovered. This is sometimes called the Chatsworth Debacle because of the name of the place where it occurred. Only about 1 in 30 people suspended before 1978 are still suspended because of these sorts of shenanigans. Since then (except with one possible private case that is poorly documented) no one has been thawed after suspension. The lessons learned: (1) payment must include enough money to set up a really conservative investment portfolio that will pay liquid nitrogen costs for at least the next 200 years, (2) don't set up a cryo-policy with groups that won't let you see their facilities, (3) ensure the financial stability of your cryo-organization to the best of your abilities.

CryoCare was set up in 1993 by some people from Alcor (the organization is named after the star, if you're wondering), who thought they could do a better job, as a for profit member driven organization that would subcontract the freezing and storage. In 1999 they informed their members that (due to lack of profits) they would need to make plans with someone else. The two people they had suspended were transferred, long term funding intact, to other organizations. Lesson: make sure the people you sign on with are ethical enough to admit defeat before they let entropy get the better of you.